The Prince’s Offerings
1“This is what the Lord Yahweh says: ‘The gate of the inner court that faces east must be kept shut during the six days of work, but on the Sabbath day and on the day of the New Moon it shall be opened. 2The prince is to enter from the outside through the portico of the gateway and stand by the gatepost, while the priests sacrifice his burnt offerings and peace offerings. He is to bow in worship at the threshold of the gate and then depart, but the gate must not be shut until evening. 3On the Sabbaths and New Moons the people of the land are also to bow in worship before Yahweh at the entrance to that gateway.
4The burnt offering that the prince presents to Yahweh on the Sabbath day shall be six unblemished male lambs and an unblemished ram. 5The grain offering with the ram shall be half a bushel, and the grain offering with the lambs shall be as much as he is able, along with a gallon of oil per half bushel. 6On the day of the New Moon he shall offer a young, unblemished bull, six lambs, and a ram without blemish. 7He is to provide a grain offering of half a bushel with the bull, half a bushel with the ram, and as much as he is able with the lambs, along with a gallon of oil per half bushel. 8When the prince enters, he shall go in through the portico of the gateway, and he shall go out the same way.
9When the people of the land come before Yahweh at the appointed feasts, whoever enters by the north gate to worship must go out by the south gate, and whoever enters by the south gate must go out by the north gate. No one is to return through the gate by which he entered, but each must go out by the opposite gate.
- EZK 46:9[NOTE]IN ONE GATE, OUT THE OTHER. Whoever comes in by the north gate leaves by the south. No one goes back the way they came. Many see a picture: meeting God changes your direction.
10When the people enter, the prince shall go in with them, and when they leave, he shall leave. 11At the festivals and appointed feasts, the grain offering shall be half a bushel with a bull, half a bushel with a ram, and as much as one is able to give with the lambs, along with a gallon of oil per half bushel.
12When the prince makes a freewill offering to Yahweh, whether a burnt offering or a peace offering, the gate facing east must be opened for him. He is to offer his burnt offering or peace offering just as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and the gate must be closed after he goes out.
13And you shall provide an unblemished year-old lamb as a daily burnt offering to Yahweh; you are to offer it every morning. 14You are also to provide with it every morning a grain offering of about three quarts with a third of a gallon of oil to moisten the fine flour—a grain offering to Yahweh. This is a permanent statute. 15Thus they shall provide the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil every morning as a regular burnt offering.’
16This is what the Lord Yahweh says: ‘If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons as an inheritance, it will belong to his descendants. It will become their property by inheritance. 17But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will belong to that servant until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs only to his sons; it shall be theirs.
18The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people by evicting them from their property. He is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of My people will be displaced from his property.’”
The Courts for Boiling and Baking
19Then the man brought me through the entrance at the side of the gate into the holy chambers facing north, which belonged to the priests, and he showed me a place there at the far western end 20and said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them into the outer court and transmit holiness to the people.”
21Then he brought me into the outer court and led me around to its four corners, and I saw a separate court in each of its corners. 22In the four corners of the outer court there were enclosed courts, each 70 feet long and 52½ feet wide. Each of the four corner areas had the same dimensions. 23Around the inside of each of the four courts was a row of masonry with ovens built at the base of the walls on all sides.
24And he said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple will cook the sacrifices offered by the people.”